RE: War is nonsense and manipulation and there is no reason to fight?
March 28, 2019 at 9:59 am
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2019 at 10:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 28, 2019 at 9:36 am)tackattack Wrote: That statement makes me pretty morose. Sad that mass killing is the best option in some situations. Maybe we should hijack the thread to talk about evolutionary aggression and escalatio?
War doesn't -have- to be mass killing, in an important sense, any more killing than necessary is a waste of military resources - but in practice the bloodthirstier of the two involved parties are the ones who make the rules. The inevitable result is that the benevolent and idealistic commander who seeks to limit the casualties attributable to his actions is at a disadvantage.
It's not his charge or duty to lose a war honorably, thus the escalation of body count on both sides.
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